Fear of a Cyber Apocalypse Era - Computer Definition

In their 2004 book Cybercrime: A Reference Handbook, Bernadette Schell and Clemens
Martin maintain that citizens worldwide are currently living in the “Fear of an
Apocalypse Age Era.” They detail a number of incidents leading to this fear.

For example, in her May 23, 2000, testimony on
cyberterrorism before the Special
Oversight Panel on Terrorism, Dr. Dorothy Denning
affirmed that the foundations of daily life in Western society—banking, stock
exchanges, transportation controls, utility grids, medical facilities, and
nuclear power stations—depend on a vast, networked information infrastructure.
Therefore, the potential for destabilizing a civilized society through cyber
attacks against banking or the telecommunications systems becomes increasingly
large.

Using Dr. Denning’s estimates, Schell and Martin noted that
a massive destructive cyber attack—which some scientists have called the Internet Chernobyl or the Internet
Apocalypse—could occur any time now.